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DevOps with Windows Server 2016

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Product type Book

Published in Mar 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781786468550

Pages 558 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

DevOps with Windows Server 2016

Credits

About the Author

Acknowledgments

About the Reviewer

Acknowledgments

www.PacktPub.com

Customer Feedback

Preface

1. Introducing DevOps

2. DevOps Tools and Technologies

3. DevOps Automation Primer

4. Nano, Containers, and Docker Primer

5. Building a Sample Application

6. Source Code Control

7. Configuration Management

8. Configuration Management and Operational Validation

9. Continuous Integration

10. Continuous Delivery and Deployment

11. Monitoring and Measuring

Windows Server 2016

Windows Server 2016 has come a long way. All the way from Windows NT to Windows 2000 and 2003, then Windows 2008 (R2) and 2012 (R2), and now Windows Server 2016. Windows NT was the first popular Windows server among enterprises. However, the true enterprise servers were Windows 2000 and Windows 2003. The popularity of Windows Server 2003 was unprecedented and it was widely adopted. With Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2, the idea of the data center took priority and enterprises with their own data center adopted it. Even the Windows Server 2008 series was quite popular among enterprises. In 2010, the Microsoft Cloud, Azure, was launched.

The first steps towards a cloud operating system were Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2. They had the blueprints and technology to be seamlessly provisioned on Azure. Now, when Azure and cloud are gaining enormous popularity, Windows Server 2016 is released as a true cloud operating system. The evolution of Windows Server is shown in Figure...

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